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Andy Dahley

Andy Dahley

Tech design veteran with 20+ years of experience at startups & industry leaders and MIT Media Lab grad. Led AI design at Google and Meta. Expert in growth, emerging tech (AI/AR/VR), and building new products and high-performing teams.

Transit Plan That's Better for Every American

Imagine faster, cheaper, and cleaner transportation for millions of Americans. Not just for those who ride trains or buses today, but for everyone. The federal government has the opportunity to make this a reality through a bold, 10-year investment in public transit. Why It Matters to Everyone Even if you

The No-Brainer Investment in Education That Could Transform America

We should invest in our children's future, It returns $7 to $13 for every dollar invested. It creates half a million jobs. It's been tested for 27 years with documented success. Universal Pre-K for Every Child What It Is Imagine a simple proposition: free, voluntary, high-quality

Affordable Housing for Everyone

Affordable Housing for Everyone

Why housing costs are high (short list) * Chronic supply shortage vs. household formation: builders haven’t delivered enough housing (especially affordable units) for years; demand outpaced supply after the pandemic. (Eye On Housing) * Restrictive land-use and zoning (single-family minimums, height limits, parking requirements, etc.) block denser, cheaper housing near jobs.

They Privatized Medicare and Broke It. We Can Fix It for Everyone.

They Privatized Medicare and Broke It. We Can Fix It for Everyone.

Every year, private insurance companies siphon off billions of taxpayer dollars from a program meant to protect seniors. They call it Medicare Advantage. The “advantage,” it turns out, is theirs. What started as an experiment to let private insurers “manage care more efficiently” has become a profit factory built on

What If Government Actually Did Big Things That Mattered?

The Case for Bold, Public Action That Changes Everything We've grown so accustomed to small thinking. Incremental policy tweaks. Pilot programs that go nowhere. Government as manager of decline rather than architect of possibility. But what if we remembered that government-at its best-is simply us, pooling our resources

The VC Problem

The VC Problem

Why 7-10 year fund cycles structurally prevent infrastructure, and what replaces them In 1983, the same year Richard Stallman launched GNU, venture capital was organizing itself around a specific time horizon. VC funds typically run 7 to 15 years, with most structured for a 10-year lifecycle. This seemed reasonable. Software

From GNU to GitHub: The Open Source Proof

From GNU to GitHub: The Open Source Proof

Four decades of evidence that collaborative development outperforms closed systems The Hard Facts Dominance: Linux runs 90% of cloud infrastructure, all Android phones, and powers AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Scale: GitHub hosts 100 million developers and 400 million repositories. Apache once powered 60% of all websites. Corporate reversal: